By Noureddine Omar | 2025-11-25

The Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) is now operational, headquartered in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel.

The center is tasked with overseeing the Gaza Strip’s peace process, coordinating stabilization and planned reconstruction efforts, and facilitating the flow of humanitarian, logistical, and security assistance from international partners.

Since its launch on October 17, the CMCC has engaged in extensive media outreach, including press conferences and guided tours to clarify its mission and highlight its role in advancing the Gaza peace plan.

The US-led center is structured with separate floors for Israeli and American teams and a joint floor where a multinational force monitors developments in Gaza and plans the next phases of the ceasefire plan.

It includes representatives from partner nations, NGOs, international institutions, and the private sector.

Maintaining security

Moving the peace process forward after the war presents major challenges, said military expert Yahya Mohammed Ali, who specializes in extremist groups.

"Consequently, coordination among the warring parties and the peace sponsors is essential and extremely delicate, a crucial task being managed by the CMCC, which directly oversees the peace process in Gaza," he told Al-Fassel.

"The center's mission is to fully oversee the US peace plan and ensure stability by coordinating between Gaza and Israel to prevent the emergence of new security tensions," he said.

In addition to security oversight, the CMCC coordinates relief operations, manages the entry of aid, and supports the removal of rubble and unexploded ordnance.

The center, he said, "is an operations room that includes many of the countries sponsoring and supporting the peace process."

Its work involves sharing security, political, and military responsibilities to maintain stability and organize ground deployments, Ali said.

Relief coordination

A wide range of donors and supporting countries are working with the UN and international organizations to streamline relief operations in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian journalist and activist Ibtisam al-Saadi told Al-Fassel that these efforts are closely coordinated with local associations operating inside Gaza.

She described the relief effort as a seamless chain in which every step is critical.

"Specifically, security coordination is required before aid can enter, then, military intervention is needed to open roads and remove unexploded ordnance to safeguard civilian lives," al-Saadi said.

The following step, she emphasized, is distributing aid, "which fundamentally requires the participation of civil society through existing organizations and institutions."

The center’s launch was essential given the difficult conditions facing Gaza’s population, especially with the onset of winter and the increasing hardship caused by rain and cold temperatures, she said.